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Better quality material means double the price, not 10x. Grazy to buy expensive clothes, except good leather items.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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"In a 2011 paper in The Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Michael Nahm, the parapsychologist who first identified terminal lucidity, and the University of Virginia psychiatrist Bruce Greyson noted what they saw as a d eeper mystery revealed by episodes of lucidity in dementia: The phenomenon seemed to show that the mind could continue to function even when the brain was significantly impaired. This was hard to reconcile, they observed, with the mainstream scientific belief in reductive materialism, which holds that consciousness originates from biophysical processes in the brain. “If you believe that everything we see and hear and feel and think and decide comes solely from the brain,” Greyson told me recently, “then you have to propose a mechanism for how the brain does that when it’s been deteriorating for years and years and not been able to do those things. How does it suddenly recover those abilities?” It was because of this that Nahm and Greyson thought lucid episodes could teach scientists about the mind-body relationship and the nature of consciousness itself."
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"Winterkill" by C.J. Box one of his early works. Great read if you like hunting, horses, and the culture of the mountain west in winter.
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Uh oh new invasive Asian thrips
https://entomologytoday.org/2026/08/04/thrips-parvispinus-tiny-thrips-becoming-big-problem/1 -
Small ants that evict coffee pests may gain reproductive boost while protecting crops
https://phys.org/news/2026-07-small-ants-evict-coffee-pests.html
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“You’re looking at one of the wildest landscapes on Earth and watching a species that almost nobody has ever studied.“ | Discover Wildlife https://share.google/QvtVP1bDRpZbvYblW
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It has lived for 1000s upon 1000s of years just fine…but now that it has worldwide attention its days are numbered.
If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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With all the information about us on the web, how is it that we are not all the victims of identity theft?
Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates.2 -
If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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True but Orwell never "literally" said it.
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"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain1 -
BOCA RATON, FL - Walter Pemberton, 85, was charged Thursday after staff discovered he had converted his nursing home closet into a fully stocked cigar operation, complete with a working humidor and a client list.
Kept over 300 cigars organized by brand, including Cohiba and Partagas
Installed a mini humidifier plugged into an outlet meant for a CPAP machine
Sold hand-rolled cigars to fellow residents for fifteen dollars apiece
Kept a ledger tracking who still owed him money
Told staff he'd been "in the business since '74" and wasn't stopping now
Staff said the smell had been drifting into the hallway for weeks before anyone opened the closet. Facility director Renata Osei, a 16-year employee, said, "I've confiscated contraband snacks. I've never confiscated a cigar empire."
He now faces charges of operating an unlicensed business and fire code violations.
Eighty-five years old.
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He's a hero!
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain1 -
Fake news. But funny
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‘You’d want one as a pet’: the irresistibly cute solar-powered sea slug
The beady-eyed, Pokémon-like leaf sheep is far more ingenious than us land mammals
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/05/leaf-sheep-sea-slug-invertebrates-of-year-20261 -
11-Year-Old Boy Sets Guinness Record for World’s Youngest Curator
Anderson Taylor opened the Cambridge Natural History Museum in rural Illinois at just nine years old4 -
Chinese robot runs 100m sprint quicker than Usain Bolt’s world record
But can the thing roll a good cigar?!?! Doubt it.
"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis2 -
Same as it's ever been. "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer" --Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Smart Glasses Being Used By Teen Boys To Harass Girls
Videos show students using Meta’s Ray-Bans to record classmates and staff, fueling new concerns over privacy, bullying and consent.https://www.vice.com/en/article/smart-glasses-being-used-by-teen-boys-to-harass-girls/
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Pretty unusual here.
https://patch.com/massachusetts/falmouth/am-i-really-seeing-1-260-pound-marlin-caught-ma-coast?
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Might be the most sensible thing I’ve read from the head of any university..
If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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I was a working class kid with a scholarship to a prep school that had this dress code. I learned quickly how to break through the financial class system, to my great benefit. I don't own a dress suit now but am perfectly comfortable with the wealthy and the poor.
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I’m not sure why, but I find this funny as hell..
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/travel/marmots-hikers-california-sequoia-a197b314
If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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@Rdp77 said:
I’m not sure why, but I find this funny as hell..https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/travel/marmots-hikers-california-sequoia-a197b314
Maybe because of the article itself, or maybe bcause it made the WSJ.
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This could be huge for us all.
In 2023, Rice researchers flashed mixed waste plastic for about 4 seconds at 3,100 K; the process recovered up to 68% of its hydrogen at purities reaching 94% and produced graphene.Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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Study A.I. Consciousness? The Bots Would Like a Word With You.
Given access to email, A.I. agents have started reaching out to the philosophers and researchers exploring deep questions about them.
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